{"id":1274,"date":"2021-10-25T16:10:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T16:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techpog.com\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2021-10-25T18:26:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:26:50","slug":"how-to-install-imagemagick-on-php-8-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techpog.com\/wordpress\/how-to-install-imagemagick-on-php-8-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Imagick on PHP 8 Guide &#8211; Image Magick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are running PHP 8 on a Ubuntu\u00a0 server and get a WordPress Health Check error that ImageMagick is not installed, then you can try these commands to fix your issue.<\/p>\n<p>Just run from the command line<\/p>\n<p><strong>pecl8.0-sp install imagick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>sudo bash -c &#8220;echo extension=imagick.so &gt; \/etc\/php8.0-sp\/conf.d\/imagick.<wbr \/>ini&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Then you&#8217;ll need to restart php-fpm for PHP 8 for the change to take effect:<\/p>\n<p><strong>sudo service php8.0-fpm-sp restart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After that&#8217;s done, you can confirm that it&#8217;s installed by running the following command:<\/p>\n<p><strong>php8.0-sp -i | grep imagick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and then add<\/p>\n<p><strong>extension=imagick.so<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>to a .user.ini or php.ini file, depending on your server,\u00a0 in the home directory of your WordPress install<\/p>\n<p>Please make sure you are running PHP 8 on your app in <a href=\"https:\/\/serverpilot.io\/a\/169b8f78c2b2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serverpilot.io<\/a> or C-panel, if PHP is set to 7.4 it will still give you the same error.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>For Best Hosting Try<\/strong><\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p>For best hosting Try <a href=\"https:\/\/m.do.co\/c\/98b8afce102d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DigitalOcean<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/serverpilot.io\/a\/169b8f78c2b2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Serverpilot.io<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You get Cloud hosting from <a href=\"https:\/\/m.do.co\/c\/98b8afce102d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digitalocean <\/a>at a good price and <a href=\"https:\/\/serverpilot.io\/a\/169b8f78c2b2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ServerPilot.io<\/a> lets you setup the server add domains and free SSl. They also have a one click WordPress install.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/m.do.co\/c\/98b8afce102d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get Free $100 dollars for Digital Ocean Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/serverpilot.io\/a\/169b8f78c2b2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Get Free $10 dollars for ServerPilot Click Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imagemagick.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ImageMagick<\/a> is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary distribution or as source code that you may use, copy, modify, and distribute in both open and proprietary applications. It is distributed under a derived Apache 2.0\u00a0license.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>WordPress Error When Image Magick is not installed<\/h2>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Under Tools -&gt; SiteHealth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>PHP modules perform most of the tasks on the server that make your site run. Any changes to these must be made by your server administrator.<\/p>\n<p>The WordPress Hosting Team maintains a list of those modules, both recommended and required, in\u00a0the team handbook\u00a0<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">(opens in a new tab)<\/span>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"dashicons warning\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warning<\/span><\/span>\u00a0The optional module, imagick, is not installed, or has been disabled.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are running PHP 8 on a Ubuntu\u00a0 server and get a WordPress Health Check error that ImageMagick is not installed, then you can try these commands to fix your issue. 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